The harvest phase includes harvesting and pond emptying and treatment

In 2010, the total production of white shrimp Penaeus vannamei from world aquaculture was 2.7 million tons with a first sale value of U$ 11 billion . The rapid development of shrimp farming in many countries is a phenomenon of the last three decades as a result of industrial transformation and intensification of production patterns …

A veterinary center was set up in Pong Tamale for the treatment of cattle

In a letter dated 12April 1949, the Department of Agriculture requested that the District Commissioner hand over a vegetable garden in Choggu to an ex-service man Mr E. N. A.Boatey. This transfer was meant to facilitate the payment of rents for the land to the appropriate quarters . This shows that the local people also …

To be able to access new lands for farming one gave a token to the chief or the tindana of the village

Now referred to as backyard farms or compound farms which are considered an ancient activity that existed all over the world and still practised today .According to Kranjac-Berisavljevic and Gandaa , 75% of farmers in the North cultivate yams; this region constitutes the “yam zone” which runs from Cameroon to Ivory Coast supplying about 90% …

Mangos were selected because they formed the largest number of farms documented in the database

Most commercial farmers in the district rely on irrigation systems for farming whilst the smallholder farmers generally depend on seasonal rainfall which typically falls from November to March. . The average rainfall ranges from 246 mm to 681 mm per annum.Soils in the district are variable and tend to be sandy in the west, but …

Currently products such as banana fruits are commonly found in people’s diets

The effective field capacity averaged 0.1 ha/h with minimum and maximum of 0.09 ha/h and 1.12 ha/h, respectively. This indicates that it requires about 10 hours to weed one hectare of a maize field as opposed to 80 man–hours required when done manually as reported by and . Therefore, weeding using the developed cultivator can …

The qualified interviewees were contacted multiple times to obtain an effective sample size

The information collected covered organic practices adopted, societal and demographics of operators; characteristics of farms; farmers’ beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions related to organic farming practices, and so forth. A large sample of farmers from a population of total 4818farms in Georgia were randomly selected and interviewed. The instruments used in the interview were designed by …

This means that Cameroon develops agricultural products that vary according to the climatic regions

After livestock and field crops, piece work is the next most important income source, followed by a group of activities that we have grouped into the category “other”.It is important to note that the contribution of livestock to income is largest among food secure households with an even larger prominence in the non-hotspot district. Piece …

The percentage of household heads with college or university education was low

In Dang Xa commune, the households with a male head made up 56.67%, while those with a female head made up 43.33%. It can be seen that the majority of household heads were male maybe because mentended to be decision makers in the family, deciding their production activities and being more active in applying scientific …

The economic aspects that lead to this rebound effect in yield farm-expansion relationship were also presented

Further, the responses of species and ecosystems services to increasing intensification levels were discussed . We here present a conceptual model to understand the ecological and ecosystems consequences of different land-use dynamics associated to agriculture intensification.Upper diagram in Figure 2 shows nine landscapes composed of different proportions of natural habitat and farming area, as well …

The perception of low organic yield is across all farmer types

Confined to limited access to chain retailers, small farmers turned to the “thin” farmers markets for their products, in which finding reliable buyers turns out to be difficult and full of uncertainty. Farmers held a perception of lower yield of organic farming is 11.92% less likely to convert to organic farming. The low yield of …